| E Magazine for basing an entire issue on the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle. |
| Meals On Wheels who are now providing vegetarian meals. |
| Monica Farrington for rescuing a skunk, a pigeon and a raccoon (at different times), and for her generous sponsorship of a full page GMAD ad in the Waldorf School publication. |
| Everyone at the Cat Spay/ Neuter Clinic in Colchester (Peggy, Roger, Kathee, Doris, Ginny, Allison, and other volunteers) |
| Suzen Larsen King for donating her professional expertise to help GMAD improve our fundraising and outreach efforts. |
| Burger King for offering a vegetarian burger in all of its establishments across the United States. |
| Legally Blonde II for sending Elle to congress to get a law passed to make product testing on animals illegal. |
| Ellen Emerson of Vermont Programmers for her excellent work on the GMAD website. |
| The School of Medicine at the University of California, who will not be performing invasive procedures on live domestic canines. Up until this semester, dogs were used in six-hour teaching labs and were killed once the class was over.
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| Emily Shell for her many hours of volunteer work, including the very tedious job of alphabetizing all our e-mail lists! |
| Morning DJ Bob of Star 92.9 who read a touching animal story on air highlighting how some people consider animals "disposable." He made a point to listeners that owning an animal is a responsibility and also pointed them to where they could get more information about apartments and hotels that allow pets. |
| Cecilia Telefus for her fabulous squirrel and bunny rescue. |
| Everyone involved in the new UVM-based animal protection organization Allied Students for Animal Protection. |
| Ellen Jareckie for all of her dedicated work for injured animals. |
| Whit Hewit for fostering twenty mice that were formerly used for research purposes. He has currently found a good home for four of the mice and continues to care for the rest. |
| Sue Cousino for her excellent work on dog rescue/adoption and other animal issues. |
| Everyone whose acts of kindness, large and small, help ease the suffering of animals and protect the environment. |